Jill Steward

The City and the Senses

Urban Culture Since 1500
Herausgeber: Cowan, Alexander

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume take an interdisciplinary and wide ranging look at urban history through the five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. By spanning pre-industrial and modern cities it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780754605140
• ISBN-10: 0754605140
• Artikelnr.: 44002276

Autorenporträt

Alexander Cowan is Reader in History and Jill Steward is Senior Lecturer in Cultural History both at Northumbria University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Jill Steward and Alexander Cowan. Part One An
Environment of All the Senses: Stench in 16th-century Venice, Jo Wheeler;
'Not carrying out the vile and mechanical arts'. Touch as a measure of
social distinction in early modern Venice, Alexander Cowan; Speaking and
listening in early modern London, Laura Wright; Engineering vision in early
modern Paris, Ulf Strohmayer. Part Two The Culture of Consumption: Touching
London: contact, sensibility and the city, Ava Arndt; Sewers and
sensibilities: the bourgeois faecal experience in the 19th-century city,
David Inglis; 'We demand good and healthy beer.' The nutritional and social
significance of beer for the lower classes in mid-19th-century Munich, Kim
Carpenter; Boulevard culture and advertising as spectacle in 19th-century
Paris, Hazel Hahn. Part Three Cultural Control and Cultural Subversion: A
taste of Vienna: food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna
1890-1930, Janet Stewart; Seeing imperial Berlin: Lesser Ury, the painter
as stranger, Dorothy Rowe; Street noises: celebrating the Liberation of
Paris in music and dance, Rosemary Wakeman. Index.

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Contents: Introduction, Jill Steward and Alexander Cowan. Part One An Environment of All the Senses: Stench in 16th-century Venice, Jo Wheeler; 'Not carrying out the vile and mechanical arts'. Touch as a measure of social distinction in early modern Venice, Alexander Cowan; Speaking and listening in early modern London, Laura Wright; Engineering vision in early modern Paris, Ulf Strohmayer. Part Two The Culture of Consumption: Touching London: contact, sensibility and the city, Ava Arndt; Sewers and sensibilities: the bourgeois faecal experience in the 19th-century city, David Inglis; 'We demand good and healthy beer.' The nutritional and social significance of beer for the lower classes in mid-19th-century Munich, Kim Carpenter; Boulevard culture and advertising as spectacle in 19th-century Paris, Hazel Hahn. Part Three Cultural Control and Cultural Subversion: A taste of Vienna: food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna 1890-1930, Janet Stewart; Seeing imperial Berlin: Lesser Ury, the painter as stranger, Dorothy Rowe; Street noises: celebrating the Liberation of Paris in music and dance, Rosemary Wakeman. Index.

Rezensionen

'This book raises many interesting and thought provoking points in relation to the city and a range of senses and its publication is a welcome one. For too long, sight has been the primary sense and the reawakening of other senses is long overdue.' The Dog Rose Trust 'This is an interesting and important book on a hitherto rather neglected subject... The editorial introduction offers both a useful theoretical survey and an overview of trends from the Renaissance onwards... a raft of lively and informative studies follows... the editors, Alex Cowan and Jill Steward, are to be congratulated on producing an excellent pioneering work.' H-Albion and H-Net Review 'What this book offers the reader is a new appreciation in examining the city, and it sheds light on how the senses could act as a vehicle through which the historical urban context can be explored.' Urban Geography Research Group '... The City and the Senses is essential reading for any scholar working on questions relating to the urban.' Senses & Society